"My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!"

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes."

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

"There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that."

"We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself."

"But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!"